This is a Fruit. Do not mess with this fruit. If this fruit grabs you by the neck and smacks your head on the table, thank it. Say, "Thank you, Durian Fruit -- I mean to say, naturally, Mister Durian Fruit Sir; thank you." If it does it again, thank it again.

Guy in the taxi said, "You like Durian fruit? Very strange, European like Durian fruit."

Well, I guess that makes me a very, very strange European. Which should come as no surprise to anyone strange enough to be reading THIS BLOG.

Scott McCloudProbably the best-known thinker about comic strips/books/graphic novels/sequential art working right now. Controversial among comic fans but unequivocally an influential and original thinker.